As the SD-WAN market leader with over 173,000 customers, Cisco remains dedicated to delivering the highest standards of connectivity and protection, ensuring that your entire network is always a step ahead. This dedication was recently acknowledged as, for a fifth consecutive year, Cisco is recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant? for SD-WAN.We feel that this is a testament to how our secure WAN solution delivers platform-level networking with security built in to solve our customers' challenges. 

A secure WAN edge is more crucial than ever

Users and apps are everywhere, connecting across a highly complex and distributed global area network, traversing owned and unowned infrastructure. Concurrently, enterprises are investing in powerful artificial intelligence (AI) to create and deliver goods, services, and experiences. Where latency spikes and inefficiencies used to be nuisances, today they're blockers to an effective hybrid workforce.

But with our unique ability to deliver unwavering connectivity, protect your entire network, and assure consistently excellent experiences, Cisco Secure WAN is the digital backbone for your organization. It connects offices, factories, stores, and distribution centers-even critical infrastructure sites like substations and ports. Whether you need high-performance routing, intelligent SD-WAN, or flexible multicloud connectivity, we deliver it on a platform purpose-built to extend security and assurance to every touchpoint across your network.

Doubling down on cybersecurity and SASE-ready

It'sno surprise that securityremainsa top priority for our customers-and for us, as enterprises evaluate policy enforcement alongside SD-WAN as standard practice. We believe this year's Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN reflects the most thorough security evaluation to date of on-premises security, security service edge (SSE), and security information and event management (SIEM) that supports our continued commitment to deliver the highest cybersecurity protection with SD-WAN: 

• Unparalleled threat protection: All Cisco WAN appliances include a built-in next-generation firewall (NGFW) for on-premises protection that delivers 25% better malware efficacy than the industry average.
• Seamless security integration: Cisco secure WAN edge is SASE-ready with native integration of Cisco Secure Access and open support for third-party SSEs.
• Proactive threat defense: Cisco MX has out-of-the-box integration with Cisco XDR to automatically detect and respond to increasingly sophisticated threats that act over multiple vectors.
• Simplifying complexity with intelligence: With the acquisition of Splunk, Cisco brings IT Service Intelligence to SIEM to help manage increasing complexity.

Built-in visibility into what you own and what you don't

In addition to resilience in the face of security threats, organizations need to build a foundation that always delivers peak experiences. When there is an issue, how quickly can you identify if it was a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, ransomware, network outage, infrastructure issue, bad code push, or something else?

For the first time, in this year's Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, Gartner evaluated vendors' digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities. Without true visibility across both the infrastructure you own and the services you don't, it's impossible to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of issues. With Cisco ThousandEyes integrated into Cisco SD-WAN, IT teams gain immediate, experience-first visibility into connectivity, assuring every digital experience for every user across the entire network.

Custom-fit: because one size does not fit all

Enterprise environments are diverse. Their IT teams must deliver secure WAN connectivity across a wide range of locations-some with generalist IT staff and others requiring highly precise configurations. Only Cisco SD-WAN enables organizations to select the best technology for each type of location, streamlining management with the most operationally efficient SD-Branch solution and a customizable SD-WAN working seamlessly together. Setup is easy through the Meraki dashboard, automatically creating a resilient link between Meraki and Catalyst SD-WAN fabrics for optimal traffic flow.

To SD-WAN and beyond

We believe that Cisco's recognition as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN for the fifth consecutive year underscores our unwavering commitment to delivering customer-centric platform solutions. With Cisco's comprehensive approach to cybersecurity and unparalleled visibility, we empower organizations to thrive in today's ever-evolving digital landscape.  

Read the report: 2024 Gartner? Magic Quadrant? for SD-WAN